[j-nsp] MX104 recommended Junos version?

Mileto Tales miletotalesgter at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 10:37:19 EDT 2017


We are running version 15.1R5 and 15.1R5-S4 in most of our routers. We 
upgraded the version to use BGP PIC in inet.0.


Until now everything is working pretty good.


MT

Em 23/06/2017 10:57, Josh Baird escreveu:
> We had to upgrade to 14.1.R7 (per JTAC) due to a memory/resource issue when
> using unofficial optics.
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Matt Freitag <mlfreita at mtu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm still on 13.3R9, their previous recommendation, and don't have a
>> problem.
>>
>> Matt Freitag
>> Network Engineer
>> Information Technology
>> Michigan Technological University
>> (906) 487-3696 <%28906%29%20487-3696>
>> https://www.mtu.edu/
>> https://www.mtu.edu/it
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Josh Baird <joshbaird at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This page [1] shows that the recommended version is 15.1R6, but this page
>>> [1] says 14.1R7 for the MX104.  I know the MX104's PPC RE cannot use the
>>> SMP kernel included in 15.1, but I understand an older kernel will be
>>> installed for these PPC devices.
>>>
>>> I'm currently running 14.2R6.5 but I am having some problems with high CPU
>>> sporadically that doesn't necessarily correlate to any periods of high
>>> traffic, etc.  Every 6 hours, the RE CPU climbs until it reaches ~60%
>>> (sometimes higher into the ~80% range) and then falls back down to ~5%.  I
>>> never saw this behavior when we were running 13.x with the same traffic
>>> levels.
>>>
>>> "show chassis routing-engine" shows most of the CPU usage at this time is
>>> used by the kernel.
>>>
>>> "show system process extensive" shows that chassisd is the main hog.
>>>
>>> I suppose my question is.. what Junos release appears to be the most
>>> stable
>>> for the MX104 platform?  Not doing anything special here - a few eBGP
>>> peers, simple routing policy, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=
>>> KB21476&actp=METADATA
>>> [2] http://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=mx104#sw
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